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Originally Posted by curves2000
Just a heartbreaking death for these poor people. Burned alive. FML.
Unless I am beyond mistaken, something bizarre must have gone on here. There was the reports of the potential for the bird strikes prior. Air Traffic Control approved the plane landing in the opposite direction so that wall would not normally be there as the planes would fly over it before landing.
If this was an emergency landing like we believe as a result of a bird strike, wouldn't the tower or emergency crews known that the landing gear wasn't down and radioed?
If this was indeed a landing gear failure, I find it shocking that the pilots, air traffic control, emergency crews and potentially the airlines emergency operations team would approve this option of sliding right into a known wall. South Korea is an advanced nation as well.
The likelihood of having both engines out, landing gear that didn't deploy seems exceedingly rare to the point where it may never have happened in modern aviation history. I believe landing gear can be manually lowered too.
Shocking, scary, tragic. Brutal all around
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There is a wall all around the airport, so both directions of the runway, about 200m from each end. Direction wouldn't matter in that regard.